School of Health and Population Sciences

Closing date: Monday 9 September 2013 Job reference: 49941

Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The organisation

The is a thriving and dynamic institution that combines over a century of heritage with one of the most compelling and ambitious agendas in higher education. Ranked amongst the world’s top 100 institutions, the University is structured to promote faster decision making and to enable it to capitalise on its academic range and financial strength. The University is organised into five academic colleges, with a University Executive Board, led by our Vice-Chancellor, Professor .

Central to our agenda is the development of the University’s five-year strategic plan ‘Shaping Our Future: Birmingham 2015’, that builds upon an existing and ambitious programme of change, ‘Sustainable Excellence’, developed to establish Birmingham as a leading global university.

The strategic plan is based around five mutually supportive goals: enhancing research power; providing students with a distinctive, high-quality experience; sustaining and utilising financial strength; enhancing performance as an engaged university; and becoming the destination of choice amongst our peers. The confidence of the University’s ambition is, in part, underpinned by one of the strongest financial positions in the UK HE sector. The University is currently forecasting a turnover of £460 million for the financial year 2011–2012 and carries significant cash surpluses with no borrowings. This is enabling it to invest in high-quality research and to enhance still further the educational experience for its students, as well as to continue to improve its estate and infrastructure, despite the prevailing economic conditions.

Over 90% of Birmingham’s research was rated as world leading or of international quality in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). With world-leading activity across a range of subjects, it remains one of the UK’s most broadly-based research-led universities.

The University’s cultural and intellectual assets include the at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts on campus and the Institute in . The University also boasts the internationally renowned Lapworth Museum of Geology and Winterbourne House and Garden, a unique Edwardian heritage attraction that is home to over 6,000 plant species from around the world. In total the University’s economic value to its region is £780 million.

Founded in 1900 and believed to be the UK’s first university, Birmingham established a new model for higher education, breaking away from the Oxbridge tradition. Through the foresight of our founders we have inherited one of our greatest assets – our beautiful parkland campus, which is currently undergoing a £175 million enhancement programme that includes the new Bramall Music Building, a new sports centre containing the city’s first 50m swimming pool and a proposed library development to provide outstanding facilities for students and researchers alongside an open access cultural hub with facilities available to the public. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The University was founded through philanthropy and fundraising. This is just as important today. Birmingham’s ‘Circles of Influence’ campaign has raised over £60 million since its launch in 2009 and continues to provide funding for five priority areas – Health and Lifestyle; Children and Young People; Heritage, Culture and Sport; Student Support; and Innovation and Immediate Impact.

With 28,000 students from 150 countries, the quality of the student experience offered at the University of Birmingham remains of paramount importance. The University is one of the leading members of the Russell Group in terms of the size of its graduate school and the quality of its student experience as shown by the National Student Survey. As well as high-quality teaching, students also enjoy an enriched experience through other activities such as sport, for which Birmingham is ranked second in the UK.

As Birmingham seeks to extend its global footprint further it is investing in its international strategy, having established overseas offices in India, China and Brussels. These new offices are developing existing contacts and forging new partnerships with academic colleagues and businesses across the Asia Pacific Region and into Australasia. Birmingham is also building strategic partnerships in North America (notably Chicago) and through its membership of Universitas 21.

The city of Birmingham

Birmingham is a major European centre and the second city of the United Kingdom. It is a city of business and ballet, canals and world-class concerts, jewellery and jazz, historical interest and cosmopolitan atmosphere. Birmingham is also the ideal base for exploring one of Britain’s most fascinating regions for tourism, being within an hour’s drive of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, the Potteries, and the Cotswolds.

The new heart of Birmingham is symbolised by Symphony Hall, considered one of the greatest concert venues in the world. Symphony Hall forms part of the impressive International Convention Centre, which overlooks attractive canals at the hub of the UK’s canal network. This setting is a very suitable venue for the CBSO, the globally respected symphony orchestra. At the magnificent Hippodrome Theatre is the internationally renowned Birmingham Royal Ballet, adding further cultural depth to the city. Apart from London’s West End, Birmingham boasts the highest concentration of live theatre in the UK, including regular tours by the major opera companies.

The City Museum and Art Gallery houses the world’s finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, alongside a major collection of Old Masters, Modern and Contemporary pictures. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts houses one of the best UK university collections of Impressionist and Renaissance art. The restored Gas Hall Gallery has international touring exhibitions, while the Halcyon and Ikon galleries feature innovative contemporary works. National landmark sites abound, including the National Indoor Arena, the National Exhibition Centre, National Motorcycle Museum, National Car Heritage Museum and the National Sealife Centre.

The iconic Bullring Centre is the largest dedicated shopping facility in Europe. Sports and recreation are well served; the city offers international Test cricket, top-flight football, International Championship golf and top-class rugby. The International Convention Centre and National Indoor Arena have spawned a whole new Downtown area at the centre of the city. The National Exhibition Centre, on the outskirts to the city, remains one of the largest exhibition facilities in Europe.

Birmingham is at the crossroads of the UK’s motorways. From Birmingham International Airport, more than a dozen different airlines operate scheduled services to 60 destinations worldwide. The University is the only mainland UK university to have its own railway station, while 50 million passengers a year use Birmingham New Street Station, which will be at the centre of the proposed high speed rail network. London is 90 minutes away by shuttle service, with trains every 20 minutes until the evening. There is a high standard of all types of private accommodation, with high-quality affordable family housing in several attractive residential suburbs. Public parks and large domestic gardens are a special feature of this greenest of European cities. Quality public and private schools are widely available, with several consistently rated in the top 10 on examination performance in annual league tables of England and Wales. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The College of Medical and Dental Sciences

The University’s structure is one of Colleges and Schools, and the College of Medical and Dental Sciences contains five Schools that cover the whole range of pre-clinical and clinical disciplines: n School of Cancer Sciences n School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine n School of Dentistry n School of Health and Population Sciences n School of Immunity and Infection

The principal base of the College lies immediately between the main campus of the University and the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Other key NHS Trust buildings are also on the same campus including Birmingham Women’s Hospital and The Barberry (Psychiatric) Hospital.

Research The College of Medical and Dental Sciences is the largest of the University’s five Colleges and, with over 800 researchers and in excess of £66M research funding per year, it represents a major international centre for biomedical research.

Our overall research objective is to develop and promote excellence in basic and clinical science with an ultimate goal of delivering improvements in human health. We take pride in a truly translational pipeline, delivering cutting edge clinical trials and patient studies, underpinned by cell and molecular biology research on both model organisms and humans.

Strategically, our research encompasses seven major internationally-renowned research domains: n Cancer n Genetics and Development n Health and Population Sciences n Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Neurological Sciences n Endocrinology and Metabolism n Dentistry n Immunity and Infection

Importantly, each domain is allied to a range of clinical specialties through which the College links its basic research to translational endpoints.

We have great pride in our interactions with local NHS environment, most obviously exemplified through ‘Birmingham Health Partners’, an exciting collaborative platform between the University and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHBFT) that will enable rapid movement from laboratory discovery to patient benefit, fostering new therapeutic and healthcare innovations by creating a truly integrated environment for researchers and clinicians. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

Education Each year the College trains 374 medical students including the Graduate Entry course (105 medical students are able to intercalate on a choice of programmes after the second, third or fourth year of their course), 75 dental students, 21 biomedical materials science students, 96 medical science students and 104 nursing students.

2013 also sees the introduction of a new undergraduate Pharmacy programme that will initially recruit 70 students per year. Medical student teaching takes place at all hospitals in Birmingham, but has recently expanded into many of the hospitals in the Black Country.

There are also approximately 650 postgraduate taught students and 550 research students in the College, managed by a cross-College Graduate School. The College has excellent library and reference facilities including the newly refurbished Barnes library and Doug Ellis Learning Hub.

Facilities The College has encompassed some major developments, expansion and improvement to its facilities, education delivery and research activity in recent years. This includes a £35m Institute of Biomedical Research, a state-of-the-art £11.8m Wolfson Centre for Medical Education and a prosectorium facility for anatomy teaching incorporating 10 ventilated tables and high tech AV teaching aids.

The College has also created a new £1m phantom head teaching laboratory facility within the School of Dentistry. The College also launched the Health Research Bus, a mobile clinical research facility funded via Birmingham Science City via Advantage West Midlands. This was the first of its kind and a great development for clinical research in the College.

Among the most recent investments is refurbishment of the Medical School building foyer and Barnes library providing impressive visitor and student services facilities. In 2012 the College developed the state-of the-art Advanced Therapies Facility which includes a new purpose built HTA-compliant biorepository (Human Biomaterials Resource Centre), cell and gene therapy pharmacy, and commercial spin out laboratory. Alongside these developments, the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WT-CRF) received the largest award renewal in the UK of £12.8 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support its activity and to strengthen its current expansion.

The collaboratively-funded NIHR Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology was developed in 2011, which combines clinical practice in the battlefield and innovation in medical research to benefit all trauma patients.

In 2012, the College secured high quality laboratory and clinical research facilities within the new University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHBFT) Queen Elizabeth Hospital, for Translational Inflammation Research and will support the newly awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Centre in Musculoskeletal Ageing.

Among the most recent investments is refurbishment of the Medical School building foyer and Barnes library providing impressive visitor and student services facilities. In 2012, the College developed a state-of the-art Advanced Therapies Facility which includes a new purpose built HTA-compliant biorepository, cell and gene therapy pharmacy, and commercial spin out laboratory. Alongside these developments, the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WT-CRF) received the largest award renewal in the UK of £12.8 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support its activity and to strengthen its current expansion.

In 2012 government funding was also announced for the development of an Institute of Translational Medicine in Birmingham in collaboration with UHBFT, bringing Birmingham into the forefront of international translational medicine research. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The School of Health and Population Sciences

The School of Health and Population Sciences (HaPS) was created in 2008 as part of a new College structure within the University. The objectives of this reorganisation were to bring together extensive expertise in a wide-ranging field of biomedical and social sciences and to develop a highly motivated School demonstrating excellence in research, education and healthcare leadership. The School plays a major role in the wider portfolio of research and teaching carried out by the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.

There are over 400 members of staff in the School which has a strong financial base and well established management structures in place. The School is led by Professor Jayne Parry, Head of School and Professor David Fitzmaurice, Deputy Head of School

The RAE 2008 results confirmed our position as one of the largest centres for population sciences and one that is consistently internationally significant. Primary Care Clinical Sciences (UoA8) was one of the top scoring units for the University of Birmingham, second only to Music, in terms of having the highest proportion of world class (4*) papers. In addition 60% of our Epidemiology outputs (UoA6) and 65% of our Health Service Research (UoA7) were rated world-leading (4*) or internationally-excellent (3*).

Staff within HaPS are grouped into five Sections reflecting traditional discipline areas within community medicine and population sciences. These are: n Health Economics n Nursing and Physiotherapy n Occupational and Environmental Medicine n Primary Care Clinical Sciences n Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

While these Sections provide a coherent internal management structure and professional ‘home’ for staff, the overarching philosophy of HaPS is for the integration of research and teaching across disciplines. Thus we have demonstrable research expertise in the development of major epidemiological studies, clinical trials, health technology assessments, health services research and medical humanities. The School also hosts the NIHR West Midlands Regional Design Service.

Teaching takes advantage of the range of research expertise available to deliver the highest standard of instruction to both undergraduates and to postgraduates. The School supports postgraduate training through Public Health, Occupational Health and General Practice Specialist Registrar training schemes, taught masters and postgraduate research opportunities. Masters courses within the School are well organised by dedicated staff and have enviable reputations. A wide range of short/CPD courses are also offered. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

Job outline

Full-time Duration of post – Open Post is open to internal and external candidates Grade – Professorial Salary – Competitive package for an outstanding candidate Informal Enquiries – Professor Jayne Parry, Head of School, School of Health and Population Sciences: [email protected] or 0121 414 7688

The appointment

We are seeking a dynamic academic leader to a Chair in Nursing to:

1. Lead the development of academic Nursing at the University including the establishment of research programmes and various teaching activities. 2. To provide academic leadership within the University and Public Health community to further develop and support Nursing research and education in the West Midlands. 3. To lead the development of Nursing research and teaching activity, in association with a range of partners including Higher Education, the NHS and the Local Health Economy.

The applicant will need to demonstrate a clear vision of the direction of his/her future academic work and the leadership qualities required to establish, build and sustain an internationally competitive focus of academic Nursing. An important factor will be the ability of the applicant to enhance the College’s research and teaching profile by establishing collaborations that will exploit the excellent environment for multidisciplinary research that exists in Birmingham.

Main responsibilities

The post holder will: n Provide academic Nursing leadership within the School and College by setting an example of good academic practice and by shaping the direction and development of the portfolio of research, teaching and consultancy within Ethics, including external links nationally and internationally n Assist the Head of School with line management of staff within the Unit, and the planning and control of expenditure against agreed budgets n Develop the profile and research activities of Nursing n Exercise responsibility for the overall quality of the academic portfolio of Nursing, including managing responses to internal and external quality review processes n Contribute to the School’s research activity in Nursing and related disciplines and provide leadership for the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching n Work together with the all staff to establish and maintain effective communications at all levels within the School, College and University and to develop an ethos based on collegiality and teamwork n Contribute to the management of the University through the operation of University policies and procedures, where appropriate, covering such matters as the recruitment and development of staff and disciplinary procedures for staff and students Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

Research

The primary responsibility of the appointee will be to develop a programme of research (which can include pedagogical research). The post holder will: n Conduct a programme of research that is aligned with the strategic priorities of the University and the College of Medical and Dental Sciences n Develop the programme of research through acquisition of major national and international funding n Foster collaborations with researchers within the School of Health and Population Sciences (HaPS), integrating a focus on Nursing in all major research theme areas (for example, obesity, cancer) n Foster collaborations with the research environment within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences but external to HaPS; for example the CRUK Centre n Foster collaborations with research groups external to the University that will both enhance and promote its strategic goals n Produce high quality original research and publications n Lead major funding bids which develop and sustain research support for the specialist area and n Advance the reputation of the College and University n Secure the publication of key results in leading journals and/or books which further develop reputation in the subject area n Provide expert advice to colleagues, students and external bodies, for example to government bodies n Promote and market the work of the College in the subject area both nationally and internationally

Teaching

The College of Medical and Dental Sciences offers a range of Undergraduate programmes including five-year MBChB programme, a Graduate entry four-year medical degree, a three-year Medical Science degree (BMedSc) as well as Intercalating degrees for medical students. It also provides undergraduate degrees in Dentistry and related subjects, Nursing and Physiotherapy. Each year we produce over 400 qualified doctors and 75 qualified dentists, and 89 Biomedical Scientists.

The BMedSc course benefits greatly from being taught by staff from different Schools of the College who are active research scientists engaged in a wide range of high quality research projects. Currently in the third year, students can specialise in areas such as Cardiovascular Science, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Immunology and Infectious disease, Cancer Science, Reproduction and Development, Public Health and Epidemiology, and Stem Cells. This enables a broad range of options to be taught that are integral to the College’s research strengths and culminate in a research project throughout the Spring term of the final year. The course therefore equips students with substantial experience and training in practical skills and many of the students go on to undertake further qualifications including PhD studentships. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The teaching focus of senior academic staff is typically within graduate teaching both on Masters courses (eg, MSc and MRes) and through supervision of graduate research students. Contributions to teaching both undergraduate students (MBChB and BMedSc) and appropriate courses across the University will also be expected.

The over-arching duty for the successful candidate will be the provision of leadership to the development, delivery and assessment of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across all relevant programmes. In addition and more specifically, the successful candidates will be expected to: n Contribute to the development of undergraduate teaching including potential expansion of existing activity (eg, new content or modules on the BMedSc programme) n Deliver teaching to BNurs, MBChB and BMedSc students through lectures, small group teaching sessions, practical classes and associated marking and assessment n If required, take on module co-ordination and development of programme curricula, ensuring these meet the standards within the University and external institutions n Develop and review approaches to teaching which advance techniques and standards locally, contribute to institutional policy and serve as a contribution to the wider debate n Plan and review own teaching load and approach to teaching, and coach others in doing the same n Contribute to the determination of the academic standards framework throughout the University n Ensure that the teaching activity achieves the educational standards of the College

Enabling and Management

The post-holder will be expected to: n Contribute to the management and development of the wider population sciences within the University, the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and in the context of the relevant specialist research centres

The post holder will have: n An international reputation in research into Nursing evidenced by publications in high quality journals and research income n An established research profile with recent papers in high impact journals. He/she will need to demonstrate a clear vision of the direction of their academic work together with leadership qualities required to sustain and enhance internationally competitive research programmes n An ongoing commitment to producing high quality research outputs n Excellent communication skills n An ability to motivate and provide research leadership n Significant experience in leading research projects and programmes n A track record of research funding from national or international agencies. Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing

The candidate profile

ESSENTIAL

Qualifications/ n Have a relevant primary academic degree Education n Have an academic degree at PhD level or above

Skills and n Substantial senior management experience within an academic setting Experience n A proven track record of leadership, vision and a clear sense of direction n Successful track record of teaching engagement and of innovation/ enhancement in learning (including online learning) n Successful track record in Nursing research n Experience of leading on strategic plans and developments n Experience of managing, motivating and developing staff n Experience in medical education at undergraduate and postgraduate level n Experience of effectively managing budgets, resources and business planning processes

Personal n The ability to influence and negotiate at all levels within the University Characteristics and externally n The ability to lead and motivate staff n Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal n The ability to deal with difficult situations/people with tact and diplomacy n Experience of negotiating at a senior/strategic level n An interest in multi-disciplinary, interprofessional working and learning